This is an analysis of the poem Westward that begins with:
I found my Love among the fern. She slept.
My shadow stole across her, as I stept... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXccaaccddaaeeffgghhaacceeiijjccaaiiaakkXeccbb ddeXccbbjjllXeiiiiccmmffiillnneeffjjXXeeooppffhhiiccqqccaaccnnnniiaadXaaiii ieeeeddffffeeaaeeaannddaaeeiikknnffnnffrreecciiXkaassccffttccllbbiiuukkllkeaa uuiiaaffqqeebXl lllffllddjjaannbbkXccddbbjjcccckkcco
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,75,77,15,58,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111 1111010111 1101101001001 00110110110 0101001101 11011101001 0101011111 0110010111 0101011001 1011010101 11111101110 00110110110 1111001101 1110111001 1101010111 0011011111 1011111101 0101110111 0100110101 0101010101 11011011010 10110100110 11011111001 1101010111 10111100101 0101010011 1100110101 1011010101 1101111111 1111111110 1001010101 10010101001 0101010111 10010101101 1011000101 0110010101 01011010001 0100010101 1101010101 1001010111 010011011001 1101001011 11110101100 10100010101 1111101101 1001010101 00010101111 1000111101 1111110011 0001110101 0101010101 0101010101 11010001001 0101010101 11100010111 1101110000 1111011111 0101110111 0100011101 0011100111 0111001000 11110010101 11010101111 1011011111 1101011001 0101011101 1101100101 0101000111 0111011101 0111010101 1001110101 0100011111 1110110101 0110010101 0101011101 0101110101 10010011101 1011100111 0101011101 1101101111 0110110101 1101010101 11101010111 11010100111 1101110101 01001010001 1011110111 0001101101 10110101001 0111111111 11110110001 0111110001 110011100101 10010011011 11110011110 01010001010 1101010101 0101100101 1011010101 0101101101 0111010111 10110000101 0101011101 1111011001 0110010101 01110010101 10010101001 0100011101 01010101111 0100111101 11110010111 1000010101 1001011111 1110011111 1001001101 0011110011 1101011101 10011101000 0101000111 0111101001 0111010101 11001111111 0101111101 1111011001 0101110101 1100110011 0101010111 1101011101 1101011101 0101001101 1111100101 1101111101 11101010101 0100111101 0111010011 0011010101 1101010101 1001011101 1101011111 01010010111 0100010111 1001010111 01011101001 1111011101 1111010111 1001111001 1001011011 1101011101 1001101101 1001010101 01010110111 1100010101 1011111101 0101110101 0101011111 1111110111 10110111100 10111111001 11110000111 1001110111 01111100111 0101010011 0101110001 0100010111 10001111010 10010101010 0100111111 1101111111 0101010111 110001101101 10101010100 11011101001 1101110101 0101011111 0111010111 0101111101 1111000101 1011010011 0100110111 0101011101 1001110001 1101011111 1101110101 1000010001 1101010100 0011011101 0011101101 01001010101 11001101001 1000010111 0010111000110 110001001010 1011111101 1111100101 1001010001 01010100001 0101011111 10001100101 1101010101 0101011101 110101010010 01010111010 0111011100 10110110111 1101110001 0101011100 1101010001 1101010100 0101010011 1001010101 00010010001 1011010101 1011010111 00101011101 0001011111 11110110001 11011111001 1101010101 10010011001 1100110101 1001010100 0101010101 101110101010 11001101010 1001011101 1101110101 1001011111 0101010101 1101011111 11110011101 01010100101 1101010111 1100010101 10111101110 0001011101 0101011111 1001011101 1010001111 1000110011 1011100101 10101010101 1111010001 1101010101 0111010101 1111111111 0101010111 1111010101 0101010011 10001101101 1001010011 1011001111 1101000111 1111110101 10010010111 1111110111 01001010001 1101010111 1111010001 1000010111 1101000111 110010000111 0111010101 1101011001 1100011101 1011010101 11010011101 1001111011 1000010001 1101011101 1001010111 1101110101 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1945
- Average number of words per stanza: 358
- Amount of lines: 272
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of, in, i, have, we, nothing, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, the, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Westward;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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